John Q Movie Trailer

A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real-life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film. Denzel Washington stars as John Q. Archibald, a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. When his young son, Michael (Daniel E. Smith), is stricken during a baseball game, John and his wife, Denise (Kimberly Elise), discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although the Archibalds have health insurance, they are informed by hospital administrator Rebecca Payne (Anne Heche) that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money himself, John persuades the hospital's compassionate cardiac surgeon, Dr. Raymond Turner (James Woods), to waive his lofty fee, but is still left with too much of a financial burden to bear. With no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint. John is soon a media hero, the focus of intense news coverage, even as police chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta) and hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) try to resolve the situation before it leads to bloodshed.

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[lilPopper]

Most powerful line: "I am not gonna bury my son!!! My son is gonna bury me!!!"

[Luana Nishimura]

But, but... He said "please" - 01:03

[nay viva]

You answered your own question. Reread what you wrote and BAM! You got it

[Vasilijan Nikolovski]

alright hadees from hercules is in this movie.....I'M WATCHING THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

[TanaM19]

I've just watched this on sky thriller and I cried all the water in my body

[broghywert]

there is a song in the movie where he goes at the factory john works

minute 8:40 at the movie does any one knows what is it called ?

[OULDKHAL abderrahman]

Who's got the full movie? please send me ;) plz

[Thien Han]

Who's got the full movie? please send me :(

[yousuf abed]

this by far my favourite movie and has been for years!

[john guincy]

thats my NAME

[Orions Belt]

Heard this really happened

[Kosher Keys]

one thing i really hate about this movie is it make me cry like a child....

one of the best movies ever